There are relatively few works that deserve to bear the title of “masterpiece,” but The Electric State is certainly one of them — the quiet, heavy, contemplative atmosphere; a young girl’s colorful-yet-fraught past that gave way to a devastating future;

The problem isn't that Netflix's The Electric State takes liberties with its source material; it's that the original book is much, much better.

Watching their turgid new Netflix sci-fi epic, The Electric State, I began to wonder where those Russo brothers went. It wasn’t the first time I’d asked myself this question; the thought had also occurred while watching their inert and stone-faced 2022 Netflix thriller,